Stellenbosch University (SU) aims to be Africa’s leading research-intensive University, and here at the SU Language Centre we produce knowledge of, in and for Africa.
The Language Centre has a robust cohort of researchers, and just like staff from academic departments, we do research on various topics within our field to generate new knowledge. “We publish our research as journal articles, chapters in books and research reports, and present our findings at conferences,” explains Dr Rose Richards, head of the SU Language Centre’s Writing Lab and Research.
We perform different types of behind-the-scenes research ‘service’ work – for example, examining theses and dissertations, supervising postgraduate students’ research, and reviewing submissions for a wide range of academic journals.”
Rose also serves on one of SU’s Health Research Ethics Committees (HREC 1) — they can review over 40 proposals in one meeting and in their last one, they reviewed 49!
Here are some of our research interests at the Language Centre. Feel free to get in touch with our researchers to learn more about our latest research.
- What is the future of South African Sign Language interpreting? (Contact Dr Kim Wallmach at kimwallmach@sun.ac.za)
- Why does Afrikaans need its own readability formulae? (Contact Prof Carel Jansen at c.j.m.jansen@rug.nl or Susan Lotz at slotz@sun.ac.za)
- Why do South African universities need academic literacy testing? (Contact Dr Kabelo Sebolai at ksebolai@sun.ac.za)
- What is it like doing educational interpreting at a South African university? (Contact Dr Carmen Brewis at carmenb@sun.ac.za)
- What are the key measures for ensuring quality translation products? (Contact Dr Alta van Rensburg at avrens@sun.ac.za)
- What are the trends in South African academic literacies? (Contact Faika Haroun at faika@sun.ac.za and Fiona Stanford at fcm@sun.ac.za)
- What type of blended learning works best for teaching Afrikaans? (Contact Dr Vernita Beukes at vernita@sun.ac.za)
- How have South African writing centres developed to serve a uniquely South African demographic? (Contact Dr Rose Richards at rr2@sun.ac.za)
- How can health literacy combat social ills? (For instance, fotonovelas can help people to fight crystal meth addiction.) (Contact Prof Carel Jansen at c.j.m.jansen@rug.nl and Dr Burt Davis at burt@sun.ac.za)
– by Dr Rose Richards and Sanet de Jager
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